Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortifications similar to the French line that hinges on Verdun. "Such fortifications would, of course, be purely a defensive measure, but would be effective as nothing else could be in serving notice upon all that these United States are not an inviting object of buccaneering invasion. . . . Let us never forget the old proverb, 'Sweat saves blood...
...forget to take one extra roll to school every day and be sure to give it to poor Schreiger...
National figures were few in the closing days of the Democratic campaign. John William Davis kept at it over the radio. James Middleton Cox strove along the Border. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, famed baseballer, repeatedly told Midwesterners to disregard the Wall Street odds. "Don't forget Wall Street bet 3 to 1 against the Yankees in the World Series. Wall Street will be wrong again...
...lying flat on the stage, that she rolls down the church steps in Cavalleria, dies in most horrible agony in Carmen and Fedora, has a dozen devices for making opera exciting. Artistically she has done better with Walküre, Rosenkavalier, Lohengrin, Tannhaüser. Few having seen will forget the beauty of her as Sieglinde sitting still at the table listening half-hypnotized to Siegmund's narrative; the silver radiance of her as Ocatavian bringing in the rose; the iridescent tenderness of her Elsa; the white compassion of her Elizabeth. Critics carp at vocal imperfections, occasional explosive performances...
Next morning, the Smith family left Boston after the Happy Warrior had told Senator Walsh: "Only God knows what is in store for me in the future, but I want to put this on record before I leave the confines of Boston?that I never shall forget to the end of my life the reception given me by the people of Massachusetts...